A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle English verse.

Introduction
Editing Issues in Middle English Lyrics - Thomas G. Duncan
Moving Lights: An Affective Reading of On leome is in þis world ilist and Church Wall Paintings - Ayoush Lazikani
Blood and Chocolate: Affective Layering in Swete Ihesu, now wil I synge - Daniel McCann
Textual and Affective Stability in All Other Love is Like the Moon - Michael Kuczynski
The Unlikely Landscapes of On God Ureisun of Ure Lefdi - Annie Sutherland
'Adreynt in shennesse': Blood, Shame and Contrition in Quis est iste qui uenit de Edom? - Hetta Elizabeth Howes
Ihesus Woundes so Wide and the Fons Vitae: Text, Image and the Manuscript Context - Natalie Jones
'Written in Gold upon a Purple Stain': Mariological Rhetoric and the Material Culture of Aureate Diction - Anne Marie D'Arcy
Textual Lyricism in Lydgate's Fifteen Joys and Sorrows of Our Lady - Mary Wellesley
Voice and Response: Lyric Rewriting of The Song of Songs - Anne Baden-Daintree
Compiling the Lyric: Richard Rolle, Textual Dynamism and Devotional Song in London, British Library, Additional MS 37049 - Katherine Zieman
Lyric Interventions in Troilus and Criseyde - Elizabeth Robertson
Poems that Speak Volumes: Lydgate's Thoroughfare of Woe, and Lyric as Epitome - Julia Boffey
'Short song is good in ale': Charles d'Orléans and Authorial Intentions in the Middle English Ballade 84 - Denis Renevey
All Adam's Children: The Early Middle English Lyric in Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II) - Susanna Fein
Musical and Poetic Form in Stond wel, moder, under rode - Christiania Whitehead
Tutivillus and the Policing of Speech in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 104 - Mary C. Flannery
Have This in Mind: Word and Image in Audelay's Writing - Jane Griffiths
'The Dance of the Intellect among Words': Wyatt's In Eternum and Late Medieval Lyric Practice - Joel Grossman
Afterword: The Study of Medieval Lyrics in 1960s Oxford and Today - John C. Hirsh
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